[Zen] Zen Buddhism on Meditation Movie - YouTube

2013-05-03 Thread Merle Lester
 do you know this chap, joe?...merle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MqZ1vBHVDU those who know  that enough is enough  will always have enough  ~~ lao tzu

[Zen] Re: Zen Buddhism on Meditation Movie - YouTube

2013-05-03 Thread Joe
Merle, Yes, I know Zoketsu Norm Fischer. He also came to our sangha and Zendo, and gave us a talk about ten years ago, around the time that a book of his poems was published. He'd also come back from the Middle East at that time, and told us about how a few things were there, soon after

[Zen] Buddhism vs Zen

2012-10-14 Thread Bill!
I'd change the captions on this graphic to 'Buddhism' and 'zen' - or maybe 'Edgar/Jim' and 'zen'... ...Bill!

Re: [Zen] Buddhism vs Zen

2012-10-14 Thread Merle Lester
 great pic..merle   I'd change the captions on this graphic to 'Buddhism' and 'zen' - or maybe 'Edgar/Jim' and 'zen'... ...Bill!

[Zen] Buddhism - Explained

2012-09-16 Thread Bill!
View the video here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/418798/september-\ 10-2012/5-x-five---colbert-report-on-religion---buddhism?xrs=playershare\ _fb http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/418798/september\

[Zen] Re: The Predicament of Man in Zen Buddhism and Kierkegaard

2012-09-08 Thread Merle Lester
bill... whilst i was searching for a third eye info for you .. a thought popped into my head. ..luther...he changed the way we view god and our relationship to him.. .. and then i came across this site..that said it all for me... merle

[Zen] Re: The Predicament of Man in Zen Buddhism and Kierkegaard

2012-09-08 Thread Bill!
Merle, Thanks! This was an interesting article and it did refer to 'third eye' twice. Once ...Zen . . . wants us to open a third eye, as the Buddhists call it... and then again ... in satori (the name given to the opening or awakening of the third eye) This is a good piece of

Re: [Zen] Re: The Predicament of Man in Zen Buddhism and Kierkegaard

2012-09-08 Thread Merle Lester
 Goody gumdrops bill finally...harmony...merle   Merle, Thanks! This was an interesting article and it did refer to 'third eye' twice. Once ...Zen . . . wants us to open a third eye, as the Buddhists call it... and then again ... in satori (the name given to the opening or awakening

[Zen] The Remarkable Experience of Zen Buddhism

2012-07-28 Thread pudgala2
... .. The remarkable experience of Zen Buddhism is that it gets rid of itself in the process of getting rid of sentient beings*. Zen Buddhism is a launching platform that becomes problematic if clung to. And Enlightened Zen Masters are impossible

[Zen] Buddhism and Sexism

2010-12-26 Thread ED
Buddhism and Sexism Can There Be Buddhist Gender Equality? http://buddhism.about.com/od/becomingabuddhist/a/sexism.htm http://buddhism.about.com/od/becomingabuddhist/a/sexism.htm

Re: [Zen] Buddhism and Sexism

2010-12-26 Thread Chris Austin-Lane
On Sunday, December 26, 2010, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote: Will experiencing kensho-satori affect a zenist's deep inner relationship to the other sex? Paying attention to what is in front of you will affect how you treat people. If you were brought up sexist and are trying to raise

RE: [Zen] buddhism

2008-10-22 Thread BillSmart
Bob, The question you've asked touches a theme that surfaces from time to time on this forum. That is whether zen is a sub-set of Buddhism (as in Zen Buddhism), or whether zen is something that can be found outside of Buddhism as well. I believe the latter, but you must know that many